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  • Inspection Ready

    The 377th Air Base Wing has a significant opportunity in front of it with the Defense Nuclear Surety Inspection team arriving next week. The team will consist of more than 160 members who will evaluate hundreds of processes, programs and operations to validate that we perform the mission in a safe,

  • Lessons from engineering competition could help save lives

    The Air Force Research Laboratory recently held its third annual AFRL Collegiate and Service Academy Engineering Design Competition. Seventeen universities and three service academies participated in the event, which was held at the Arnold Engineering Development Complex located on Arnold Air Force

  • Kirtland sergeant receives Bronze Star, Purple Heart medals

    A Kirtland warrior received two military medals after surviving a car bombing while deployed to Kabul, Afghanistan."I never thought I'd receive a Purple Heart and Bronze Star Medal," said Tech. Sgt. Austin Hardin, a paralegal in the Air Force Nuclear Weapons Center Legal Office. "Although I wish I

  • Kirtland spouse nets AFMC Key Spouse of the Year Award

    A Team Kirtland member was selected as the Air Force Materiel Command Key Spouse of the Year.Beth Moran, wife of Master Sgt. Andy Moran of the 377th Security Forces Squadron, was selected for her efforts with the Kirtland Key Spouse Program. She said she is honored to receive the award, but shares

  • Summer STEM camp for students from Kirtland families

    The Air Force Research Laboratory La Luz Academy is accepting applications for its science, technology, engineering and mathematics, or STEM, camp for students from Kirtland families. Students who will be going into 5th or 6th grade in the 2014-15 school year, will spend the week exploring hands-on

  • Kirtland has flock of bird studies

    Kirtland's Natural Resource office is conducting seven studies of the bird population found on base.The birds the office is interested in include the burrowing owl, loggerhead shrike, gray vireo, raptors and migratory songbirds."The majority of the research we have going on base are studies on

  • AFRL La Luz Academy holds ‘egg-cellent’ symposium

    The Air Force Research Laboratory La Luz Academy STEM Challenge Flight really came out of its shell at the culminating STEM Challenge Symposium.AFRL La Luz Academy at Kirtland is an education outreach program that promotes science, technology, engineering and math education activities for New Mexico

  • Kirtland enhances its fuel spill soil vapor removal

    Kirtland has expanded its investigation and remediation of the vadose zone, the soil layer contaminated by the fuel spill.This interim remediation measure is designed to address the fuel spill, according to information on the New Mexico Environment Department website.Fuel vapor is drawn from